2012-2013 Season
including the WWTC season
2012-2013 Season
including the WWTC season
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Our Novice
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Thursday & Friday - Oct 4 & 5, 2012 7pm -
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The Munster Theatre Company of
Munster High School is pleased to present its first production of the
season, with the comedy, Produced by Larry & Carol Lynn Brechner, this full-length, student directed production will feature Munster High School senior, Ben Nichols as the show’s director, assisted by Morgan Papesh and Steven Caraher. The Novice production features the talents of over eighteen new freshman and sophomore actors (or juniors or seniors who have never been on stage before). |
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School spirit has never been lower at Marvin Gardens High School, so when a new principal is scheduled to take over, everyone is hoping for change. |
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What
they get instead are con-artists George and Madge, after they cause a car
wreck that injures the new principal.
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George
and Madge run from the law by posing as the new principal and his secretary, respectively, in a case of stolen identity. |
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Taking on their new roles, the criminals begin to doubletalk and dodge their way past:
concerned parents, |
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Even the amiable school counselor and the Vice Principal are puzzled by the new arrivals. |
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Many more manic people working in the school building including a pushy school board member and her husband serve to create comic hijinks. |
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Fast lines and plot twists make this riotous rapid fire farce one you will love performing and one your audience will love watching. |
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Switching Principals will
run Thursday and Friday October 4 & 5 at 7pm in the Munster Auditorium.
Tickets are $5 at the door and are available at the Auditorium Box Office on
performance nights or by calling:
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PIPPIN begins with a troupe of players appearing on stage guided by the Leading Player, as they endeavor to retell the medieval legend of Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne’s son Pippin. |
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Pippin has returned from his university studies at Padua where he is once again awkwardly meets with his Father, Charlemagne, his step-mother, Fastrada, and her son, Pippin's half-brother Lewis. |
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The Leading Player and troupe guide Pippin though various life experiences and begins his search for the meaning and truth for his “extraordinary” life. |
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Pippin accompanies Charlemagne and Lewis by going to war against the Visigoths. He discovers however that the death, blood shed, post victory sacking of the enemy, plus an encounter with a now headless Visigoth warrior, convinces Pippin that war does not supply the satisfaction. |
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Dissatisfied with war, Pippin goes to the country where his grandmother, Berthe lives to seek her comfort and her special wisdom about life.
Berthe, Charlemagne's mother, is estranged from court due to conflicts with her new daughter-in-law, Fastrada.
Refreshed with her advice, Pippin seeks fulfillment in pursuit of love, and after his choreographic encounter with many women, discovers that physical love is not enough. |
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Leading Player reveals to Pippin how
Charlemagne's reign brutally oppresses those Pippin decides to take action against his father's tyrannical rule in a plot to overthrow Charlemagne in leading his own revolution. |
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Fastrada learns of Pippin's plot and "in her effort to gain the throne for her darling son, Lewis," encourages Charlemagne to go for his yearly prayer in the remote Chapel at Arles.
Fastrada informs Pippin on this unguarded opportunity to end his father's rule.
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No matter who is eliminated in this coup, Fastrada will help her son Lewis be one step closer to the throne.
Pippin soon discovers that being the Holy Roman Emperor is not as easy as he thought, and the Leading Player magically restores Charlemagne to the throne. |
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Leading Player leads Pippin on "The Right Track" where he tries art, the religious life, and many other things each ending dissatisfaction.
Pippin ends up on a roadside in abject despair when discovered by a Catherine, an ordinary widow with a small boy and a large estate who takes him in. |
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Pippin believes in his extraordinary destiny, but reluctantly at first becomes a part of the daily routine, and is finally drawn together in a classic musical theater love song with Catherine.
When all seems to be heading toward a traditional happy ending, Pippin, feels trapped by this simple, ordinary existence, realizing that this is all his life will be, runs away.
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Now facing the entire troupe of actors, he is tempted to do the extraordinary Grande Finale in an attempt to satisfy Pippin’s desire for complete fulfillment. |
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PIPPIN
will
enchant audiences. It
run Thursday, November 15; Friday, November 16; Saturday,
November 17 at 7pm, and Sunday, November 18 at 2pm in
Munster Auditorium. Adult tickets are $7 (senior and student tickets $5).
Tickets are available at the Auditorium Box Office on
performance nights or in advance by calling:
November 15-17, 2012 7pm |
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February 7-9, 2013
at 7pm The
Munster Theatre Company of Munster High School is pleased to present
its winter production of Produced by Dr Larry A Brechner & Carol Lynn Brechner, this full-length, student-directed production will feature the solo directing debut of Christian Fary, assisted by Rachel Borgo and will feature a large cast of 30 MTC veterans and newcomers.
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Alice (Allison Hemingway) slides into view at the end of her long fall down the rabbit-hole.
It is a more delightful place for the audience than for Alice, who is trying desperately to get back home.
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She tries to get help from
the
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from the very nice Cheshire Cat (Rohan Chatterjee)...
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who appears throughout her Journey in Wonderland along with...
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the nervous, time-conscious Rabbit (Billy McDunn) in his effort not to be late to the court of Queen of Hearts (Colleen Kifer).
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During her journey
through Wonderland, Alice encounters a strange array and many others through a collection of the most delightful incidents.
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ALICE
IN WONDERLAND
will run Thursday, Friday, and Saturday February 7, 8, and 9, 2013 at 7pm
in the Munster Auditorium. All Tickets are $5 at the door and are available
at the Auditorium Box Office on performance nights or by calling: (219)
838-2235 or visit our web site at
www.munaud.org
Tickets are
available at the Auditorium Box Office on performance nights or by
calling:
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Wilbur
Wright Theatre Company
February 21, 22, 23, 2013 at 7pm |
Carousel
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The Sound of Music was the final collaboration between Rodgers & Hammerstein, and the only one where Hammerstein did not write (or co-write) the script, to become the world's most beloved musical. The 1965 motion picture version remains the most popular movie musical of all time.
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| The Sound of Music, Climb Every Mountain, Do-Re-Mi, My Favorite Things, The Lonely Goatherd, Edelweiss, Sixteen Going on Seventeen, plus two songs from the motion picture version, I Have Confidence, and Something Good. |
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When a nun postulant Maria (Morgan Papesh), proves too high-spirited for the religious life under the watchful eyes of Sister Sophia (Katies Gajewski), Sister Berthe (Colleen Kifer), and Sister Margaretta (Delilah Owens)...
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...she is dispatched by Mother Abbess (Rachel Borgo) to serve as governess for the seven children of a widowed Austrian Naval Captain, Baron Georg von Trapp (Christian Fary). The Captain was deeply wounded by the loss of his wife, and is now raising his children under a strict, military-style discipline.
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Though she has no experience as a governess, Maria quickly wins the hearts of the von Trapp kids ranging in ages from five to sixteen by using music, first teaching them how to sing using "Do-Re-Me."
Liesl (Allison Hemingway)
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The Captain being is pursued by Vienna socialite, Baroness Elsa von Schräder (Helene Jancosek), with the help of music impresario and The Captian's friend, Max Detweiler (Ben Nichols).
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Elsa, also a widow, makes her first visit to Captain von Trapp's villa nestled in its impressive mountain setting just outside of Salzburg.
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Friends of both The Captain and Elsa, Max in anxious to keep "all their money in the same family." While The Captain has strong feelings against the possible unification of his beloved Austria with Nazi Germany, Max and Elsa both are politically neutral. |
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Meanwhile, young love is budding between the eldest von Trapp daughter, Liesl (Allison Hemingway) and the young telegram delivery boy, Rolf (Michael Peters).
They meet outside on the villa's terrace singing, "Sixteen Going on Seventeen."
Liesl is locked out of the villa, so she climbs the trellis ending up in Maria's bedroom where she has to explain where she was, and what she was doing. |
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The Captain's strict routine for the children has been completely altered by Maria, coming to a head when Maria has made them "playclothes" out of old curtains.
However The Captain begins to soften when he hears his children singing, "The Sound Music," bringing music back into his home.
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A lavish party is being given at the villa, and Kurt, asks Maria how to dance the Austrian folk dance, The Ländlier. Kurt tries to learn the dance, when The Captain steps in to demonstrate how its done. After the dance, outspoken Brigetta tells Maria that her Father is in love with her, and that Maria loves him too. Maria, feeling that she has failed her mission to serve as governess by allowing her feelings for The Captain be seen, she returns to the abbey without telling anyone at the villa.
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Mother Abbess meets with Maria and tells her she must face her feeling for The Captain, and not use the wall of the abbey to hide from the world. Maria returns to the von Trapp villa discovering the The Captain and Elsa have become engaged. Elsa however realizes that The Captain really loves Maria, and not her, and makes a graceful exit. They profess their love for each other in music, "Something Good."
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Upon returning from their honeymoon they discover that Austria has been annexed by the Nazi Germany, and demands the Captain immediately report to service in the German Navy. Using an appearance on the Salzburg Festival stage as a delaying tactic, the family makes a narrow escape over the mountains with the gathering clouds of World War II at hand that provides one of the most thrilling and inspirational finales ever presented in the theater. |
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The Sound of
Music
will run Thursday, May 2; Friday, May 3; Saturday, May 4 at 7pm, and
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May 2-4, 2013 7pm
Adult tickets
are $7
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For ticket information
Box Office Manager
Anne Kinser
(219) 838-2235
Email:
Box Office
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The Munster Theatre Company |
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Our Novice
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Wednesday & Friday Sep 21 & 23, 2010 7pm -
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The Munster Theatre Company of Munster High School is pleased to present its first production of the season, the comedy, TBA by . Produced by Larry A Brechner, this full-length, student directed production will feature Munster High School seniors, TBA as the show’s director, assisted by TBA. The Novice production features the talents of over eighteen new freshman and sophomore actors (or juniors or seniors who have never been on stage before).
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TBA will run Wednesday & Friday, September 21 & 23 at 7pm in the Munster Auditorium. Tickets are $5 at the door are available at the Auditorium Box Office on performance nights or by calling: (219) 836-3200 x3245 or my email MunAud Box Office. |
